Four Dimensions. Collage & Assemblage
dal 13/3/2007 al 7/4/2007
Segnalato da
13/3/2007
Four Dimensions. Collage & Assemblage
Artamo Gallery, Santa Barbara
An exhibition of collages by Artamo Artists Ann Baldwin and Jack N. Mohr together with guest artists Gurpran Rau and Seantel Sanders showing a variety of two- and three-dimensional works using paper, photography and mixed media in very different collage-style approaches.
Ann Baldwin, Jack N. Mohr, Gurpran Rau and Seantel Sanders
Artamo Gallery presents an exhibition of collages by Artamo Artists Ann
Baldwin and Jack N. Mohr together with guest artists Gurpran Rau and Seantel
Sanders showing a variety of two- and three-dimensional works using paper,
photography and mixed media in very different collage-style approaches.
Ann Baldwin, from London, England, came to San Francisco in 1990, where she
took up painting after being a teacher of literature. She attended art
classes at the College of Marin and developed her own, unique form of
abstract expressionism, combining elements of collage with painting. First
mainly using elements of literary text and of other historic reference in
her collage paintings she recently turned more into using photographic
elements in her work, industrial motives as well as pictures of nature. One
step further now, she embraces the artistic possibilities of digital
collage, masterfully bringing together all of the mentioned before visual
elements.
Jack N. Mohr, born in Berlin, Germany, Jack N. Mohr earned his M.A. at the
State University for Creative Arts in Berlin and came to California in 1997.
He began his artistic career with collage, later also turning to painting
and sculpture. Today Mohr is known for using or combining uncommon materials
in his work, often crossing the line between second and third dimension. He
describes his collages as "original originals" because they are created of
bits and pieces he had produced himself.
Gurpran Rau, born in India, studied at the New Delhi Polytechnic, later in
Paris, France at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts and La
Sorbonne. Finally she earned her M.A. in Fine Arts at Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana. Her work has been exhibited in museums and
galleries over the United States and in France, and she has been invited to
participate in the 2007 Florence Biennale in Italy. Her hybrid works combine
digital print, pigment, collage and encaustic media to represent hidden
codes, complex structures. The monochromatic palette, like a photographic
negative, references medical x-rays, where perspective is blurred and
internal and external images are connected.
Seantel De'Monte Sanders was originally trained as a commercial
photographer. He earned his degree at Brooks Institute of Photography in
Santa Barbara and currently teaches at Santa Barbara City College. Sanders
finds himself fascinated with translucence, a quality that ‹ as he explains
‹ obscures but does not hide; it blankets, but does not conceal; it gives
the illusion of shelter, while revealing what lies within. His
de-constructed re-assembled photo collages won awards and have been
exhibited recently in California in Santa Barbara and in Malibu.
A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, March 17, from 58 PM.
Artamo Gallery
11 West Anapamu Street - Santa Barbara